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After completing a US$1.75-billion purchase of IBM Corp.

Splits have appeared in the Australian government's position of offshoring Australian public sector IT jobs. The Prime Minister's office has refused to support comments made by the Trade Minister Mark Vaile and Communications and IT Minister Helen Coonan backing the practice.

Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. on Tuesday announced that they will integrate a number of their respective products in an effort to simplify the deployment of cutting-edge networking technologies in the enterprise.

3Com Corp. and Electronic Data Systems Corp. were at press time working out the final details on a deal for EDS to resell 3Com enterprise hardware products as part of the integration firm's services offerings.

PeopleSoft Inc. announced a partnership with IBM recently to offer preconfigured servers running IBM Corp.'s DB2 database and middleware products and business software from PeopleSoft.

In a flurry of press releases and corporate handshakes, IBM Canada Ltd. and Manulife Financial Corp. announced Monday both a new partnership to fund a university research centre and a new outsourcing deal.

Despite recent troubles in the hosting market, IBM Corp. says its hosting division is on a roll. Big Blue reported US$600 million worth of new customer business during the third quarter and says hosting revenue so far this year totals $1.7 billion, about double a year ago. Network World senior writer Jennifer Mears recently spoke with Jim Corgel, who took over as general manager of IBM's e-business hosting services in April.